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J. LEIIGHTON. Hand-Stamp.

No. 225,936 Patented Mar. 30,1880.

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JOHN LEIGHTON, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

HAND-STAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,936, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed November 8, 1879. Patented in England, December 20, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN LEIGHTON, of London, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand Stamps, for which I have obtained an English patent for fourteen years, dated 20th December, 1878, and numbered 5,233, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved hand-stamp. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same, showing the two parts separated. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same.

The object of this invention is to producea portable stamp for printing, which stamp may be attached to a lead-pencil, pen-holder, or other convenient handle, so as not to interfere with the ordinary use of such pencil, penholder, or handle, but may be readily detached therefrom if its use as a printing device is to be effected.

The invention consists in the combination of a perforated printing-block with atray containing the inking-pad, which tray has perforated ears, so that a pencil, pen-holder, or the like may be put through said ears and through said block, to hold the parts together and to hold the printing-surface in contact with the inked pad, allowing the separation of the two parts by the mere withdrawal of the pencil and the independent use of the printing apparatus whenever desired.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents a lead-pencil, pen-holder, or the like. B is the printing-block, made of triangular or other equivalent form, and containing on one of its faces elastic or other types, which are affixed to it.

C is the tray carrying the inked pad, which is a cushion moistened with ink and adapted to fit over the type-face of the block B. This tray 0 has ears a a, which are perforated and so spaced that the block B will fit between them lengthwise, thus allowing the pencil A to be put through said ears and block B in the manner shown in Fig. 1, for holding the device compact and properly together. In this position-namely, in the position shown in Fig. 1the printing apparatus does not interfere with the ordinary uses of the pencil.

Whenever the printing is to be done it is only necessary to detach the pencil by withdrawing it from the apparatus B G, thereby iiermitting the block B to be taken out of the tray 0 and the printing-surface on the face of the block to he used in the usual manner.

For greater convenience I prefer to attach a small handle, b, to the block B.

I claim- The combination of thelongitudinally-perforated printing-block B with the detachable inkingpad 0, having the perforated cars a a, by which it is adapted to be held against the printing'block by means of the loose rod A, inserted through the perforations in the block and the ears of the pad, substantially as specified.

JOHN LEIGHTON.

Witnesses:

G. ENGLISH, 17 Glasgow Terrace, Pimlico, London.

H. BAXTER,

10 Upper James street, Camden Town, London. 

